Public Library Solutions | Collection Development & Databases

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Our mission for public libraries is to help expand their role in the communities they serve through insights and programs that meaningfully impact education and drive economic growth. As the needs of your community evolve, we continue to develop resources for patrons that enhance research, provide learning solutions , support business success , and enable libraries to create more focused programming . The influence libraries have on the greater community can lead to lasting change. Together, we can provide essential content and user-friendly technology that engage learners and encourage patrons to achieve their personal and professional goals.

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Online Learning and Upskilling

Whether it’s lifelong learning, strengthening employability, or a desire to up their professional development game, we have eLearning solutions that can help adults turn library cards into opportunities for growth.

Gale Presents: Excel Adult High School

Change lives by offering a 100 % online program that allows adults to earn an accredited high school diploma with the support of highly qualified instructors, success coaches, academic tutors, and college and career counselors.

Gale Presents: Udemy

Connect your patrons to more than 8,000 on-demand video courses across 75 different categories to help them build skills for their current role or prepare for a new one. Courses are taught by world-class instructors.

Gale Courses

Support personal and professional learners with access to over 360 online courses available 24/7. Classes are six weeks long, with new ones beginning each month.

Gale Presents: Peterson's Career Prep

Equip and inspire job seekers with an affordable, focused, and streamlined content set that accommodates job seekers at all levels, whether they’re entering the workforce for the first time or searching for new opportunities.

Business Resources

Supporting your small business community helps fuel local economic growth. Become a destination for entrepreneurs and business owners alike with the legal resources, templates, information, and online planning tools they’re looking for.

Gale Business: Plan Builder

This highly intuitive online planning resource?complete with the information and tools needed to move through the entire business development life cycle?
is ideal for starting, managing, and optimizing a business.

Gale Business: DemographicsNow

This powerful online resource provides users with actionable demographic, company, and residential data in targeted geographic locations to support market research and business planning activities.

Gale Business: Entrepreneurship

Our comprehensive database covers all aspects of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, tax, and more. It includes nearly 1,000 sample business plans.

Gale LegalForms

Gale LegalForms covers a wide selection of essential state-specific legal forms that may be customized for the most common legal procedures. Many forms are ideal for supporting legal tasks relevant to business owners.

Public Library Literacy Resources and Story Time

Prove that a library card can open doors to learning. Whether they’re just starting to read, striving, or fervent readers, your library can offer collections that meet patrons right where they are with their reading skills.

Miss Humblebee's Academy

Prepare young learners for kindergarten and beyond with online and offline curriculum based on educational standards. As fun as it is challenging, lessons and activities cover key disciplines like language and literacy, art, music, math, science, and social studies as well as social and emotional learning (SEL) resources, which will be available soon.

Gale Books and Authors

Guide readers toward a good book. Along with fun ways to browse, this reader’s advisory database features an intuitive design, read-alikes, reviews, and multiple book lists.

Youth Large Print

Introduce a reading intervention tool that is research based and proven to improve student reading skills. Thorndike Press from Gale offers over 400 large print titles for striving readers.

Public Library Collection Development

From providing relevant content to supporting open dialogue and inclusion, the public library continues to transform itself to serve users in unique ways. Valuable resources such as encyclopedias on current topics, newspapers, and magazines can help with this all-important mission.

Gale eBooks

Offer users an award-winning, hassle-free eBook experience?anytime, anywhere, and on any device. Our eBook platform provides comprehensive support from many of today’s top publishers.

Gale OneFile

Take advantage of a premier periodical database that puts many of the world’s leading journals, newspapers, magazines, and more right at your user’s fingertips.

Equity, Diversity, Inclusion

Promote a culture of equity, diversity, and inclusion. You’ll find diverse primary source and eBook collections that provide a relevant perspective on topics like sexuality and gender, civil rights, women’s studies, and more.

Library Marketing and Management

Just imagine how far you could take your programming if you were able to tap into the needs of your patrons. These data-driven resources help you better understand who your audience is and how to reach them.

Gale Analytics

Pair your public library’s usage data with powerful demographic visualizations of your community to better inform planning, programming, collections, and library marketing outreach efforts.

Gale Engage

Obtain a 360° view of your library. This cloud-based solution is designed to help make your public library system become more adaptive by centralizing data for faster decision-making and more efficient outreach .

Homework Help and Test Preparation

Set students in your community up for success with materials that span core subjects, eBooks from today’s top publishers, and college and career planning tools. Solutions are designed to meet the needs of diverse learners.

Gale In Context

Each subject-specific resource uses eye-catching topic overview pages to bring together nonfiction materials in all digital formats. Users get the facts through newspaper and magazine articles, videos, and more.

Gale In Context: Environmental Studies

Look at today’s magazines or newspapers. From climate change to automobile emissions, environmental issues are hot-button topics. Help young learners and others understand how we as a society are affected.

Gale eBooks

Where some deliver a leisure reading experience, Gale eBooks are optimized for search, discovery, and integration across your library’s educational programs?giving patrons a better learning experience.

Gale Presents: Peterson's Test Prep

A valuable database library patrons and students of all ages can use for standardized test preparation, researching and selecting college and graduate schools, finding tuition assistance, and exploring careers.

Library Programming and Events

Build library traffic with programs that correspond with calendar events like National Car Care Month in April and October; use step-by-step business-planning resources to better guide entrepreneurs; or supplement advanced programs with online learning options.

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We partner to change lives